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Why use conveyors? Just throw the footballs from one station to another.

This would give retired quarterbacks something to do.

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Heidi

You saw a problem and applied your ind to it (good)

Your idea sounds like the "old" pneumatic tube system that once proliferated. Still has some niche applications

I don't think that mail is sorted manually anymore. Not in the developed world at least. I stand to be corrected on that one.

In the early`90's it required 17 people to process about 40,000 pieces of mail an hour.It consisted of 12 keyers,who had 1 second to look at,read,interpret,fetch bar code from memory, and key in the results.The mail piece was either keyed in that 1 second interval, or it moved on to a no-key bin.It took 4 sweepers to remove the sorted mail from the bins.It also required a supervisor for each machine.They had to key 99%+ or they were sent back for retraining.Their results could be audited at any time by the supervisor without their knowledge. Some streets had multiple zip codes, depending on address, so they also had to remember the changes on each street.This was an amazing mental and physical feat, and these people did it night after night, all the while listening to headphones and keeping a 1 second beat.

Everything now is basically computerized and automated.The machines run 40,000 pieces an hour,with 1 operator, 1 sweeper per machine, and 1 supervisor for the whole operation.No memorization of zip codes is required,training required is minimal.Conveyors are used prolifically throughout the operations.

Manual casing of mail is very minimal,usually odd shaped or damaged mail,(ink pens, bottle caps,jig saw blades, etc) or mail that is out of specification for automation.

You really should visit a local large post office to see the changes that have occurred in the last 20+ years.

Now a days who sends mail as print out? Everyone uses e-mail which is faster and free.Post offices are mostly empty, once they were fully packed and there were long ques. Post boxes are only quarter filled. Post offices are running losses, they are adding new services to survive.

I still get postal mail. I can't remember the last time I ever sent a letter that way.

Your first mistake was in attempting to use logic and reason at the Postal Service! I stopped doing that many years ago and things are going swimmingly for me now. Frankly I'm surprised that they didn't promote you to Post Master on the spot just to stop that sort of behavior! thinking...thats crazy talk!!!

You have it backwards.The people on the bottom do the thinking, not the top.The :"PETER PRINCIPLE "Promote to the highest level of incompetence, then back off one level.") Except, at the P.O. they don't back off, they just keep on moving up.

"Screw up--Move up" seems to be their motto.

I had better drop out of this discussion.